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Criminal law — offences under Criminal Law Code — bigamy (s 104) — second marriage entered into outside Zimbabwe — courts of Zimbabwe having no jurisdiction to entertain charge
The accused had married a woman in Zimbabwe in terms of the Marriage Act and, a few years later, knowing that the marriage still subsisted, purported to enter into another monogamous marriage in South Africa. He was charged before a magistrates court in Zimbabwe with bigamy and convicted. On review:
Held, that the courts of Zimbabwe have no jurisdiction to convict of bigamy in a case like this where the alleged bigamous marriage took place in some other country.
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